Strong intelligence received through media sources suggests that Lend Lease is about to submit a planning
permit application – and guess what – the ‘new’ plan is every bit as big as the old!

Yep – 12 storey towers and the rest of it. And while Lend Lease is yet to reveal how many residences it wants to bestow upon us we have an inkling that it may be pretty much the same as proposed in the original plan – 490! Look out for next week’s Stonnington Leader for details.

This application is clearly aimed at circumventing Stonnington’s Urban Design Framework process which is now underway. We need a UDF to set limits to developers’ plans and we need it now.

If you live on Beatty, Clendon, Eileen, Turner, Elm, Orrong, Molesworth, Rose, Abeckett you are at ground zero. Be a part of the UDF or start preparing the welcome wagon. And perhaps the paddy wagon as your new neighbours will love to party.

With Lend Lease hell bent on turning Armadale into Southbank South our question to every Stonningtonian is this: have you booked your place at the UDF consultation workshops? Call now 8290 1395.

Stay tuned to this site for more details as they emerge. Meanwhile: fight the towers! Know anything we should know? Tell us 9510 4845.

This development means traffic gridlock, overflowing train stations and tram stops, no more on-street car parking, a blighted skyline and less privacy for current residents. It will also impinge on adjoining public land. It defies the lowrise local residential style.

This development will set a precedent for further development.

This is a rare opportunity for Stonnington to increase open space, develop a school or a stellar medium density residential development. We do not need another Docklands.

Already we know that Toorak Station is within developers' sites. How long before Hawksburn and Armadale are redeveloped?

Stonnington Council - after much campaigning - refused the permit but developer Lend Lease successfully overturned this decision at VCAT. This VCAT decision is in turn being appealed in the Supreme Court in April 2013.

Our opponent is smart, moneyed, experienced and well connected. We won't win this without your help.

Lend Lease has 'consulted' but never compromised. They entirely underestimated our ability to fight their plan.

Reading this is just the beginning - we need you to work with us to fight the towers.